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A 21-year-old man downed about 10 shots of liquor, stole an auto dealership's golf cart and was arrested driving the wrong way on a St. Louis Park highway, according to a criminal complaint. Steven L. Mansfield was charged Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court with felony motor-vehicle theft and third-degree drunken driving, a gross misdemeanor. Soon after his arrest before dawn Saturday morning, Mansfield's blood-alcohol content was measured in a breath test at 0.20 percent, more than twice the legal limit for driving in Minnesota. According to the complaint: State Patrol troopers located and stopped Mansfield driving a golf cart...

An intoxicated Burnsville man was pulled by law enforcement from an Amtrak train in western Montana and then said with a laugh that a bag he left behind held something dangerous, according to charges. The alleged threat by Hussein Abdi Hassan, 24, prompted evacuation of the 140 or so passengers Monday night from the westbound train amid snow that was blowing and drifting from winds topping out at 90 miles per hour, according to charges filed Tuesday in Glacier County. No bomb was found, but abandoning the train in a treacherous swath of territory was difficult for older passengers and...

In what may be the biggest understatement since "Houston, we've had a problem" echoed through the cosmos 38 years ago, a Sauk Rapids man said today from his hospital bed that he's lucky to be alive after being struck by a freight train. Christopher Gilhoi, 30, was lying between the tracks when the train, "traveling slower than usual," ran over him Saturday night as he walked home from an evening at the bar with friends. Gilhoi said he remembers almost nothing from the incident, chalking up his foggy memory to the concussion he suffered and being "relatively drunk" at the...

In case you missed it, Ted Kennedy was just on MSNBC (and ONLY on MSNBC) demanding a subpoena from Sen. Spectre for 20-year-old copies of a conservative Princeton publication housed in the Library of Congress. Clearly deranged, cloudy-eyed, and stumbling over his words, Kennedy met with what was clearly a hand-picked group of wholly supportive reporters to make his demand 'so that the Alito Hearing committee members can fully investigate the rumor that Alito belonged to a conservative group' that did not support the Cookoo-Bird Leftist agenda that is Kennedy's base. Continuing...

The fan who ran onto the field during a Bengals game and took the football from Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre was placed on 14 months of probation Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct while intoxicated. Greg Gall of Cincinnati also was sentenced to 230 hours of community service and fined $200. While on probation, he is banned from Paul Brown Stadium and the Reds' Great American Ball Park. A charge of resisting arrest was dropped. "We respect the judge's decision and we hope this will serve to deter similar incidents in the future," Bengals...